Improvement in curtain-fixtures



E. M. DAVIES.

Gurtain-Fixtures.

Patented Jan. 20.1874.

Jig. 1.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrron EDWARD M. DAVIES, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO FRANCIS J. BEBBEOK, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,659, dated January 20,1874; application filed OJtOTOI 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern i Be it known that I, EDWARD M. DAVIES, of Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Gurtain-IiiXtui-e, of which the following; is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view of a curtain with my improved fixture attached, and Fig. 2 represents a vertical central section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A represents the curtain; B, the roller; 0, the flanged wheel or cap attached to the ends of the same. The trunnion or axle a of wheel or cap (J is extended suitably beyond the hangers or brackets D, in which the roller turns, provided at its outer end with a screw-thread, and produced with square or triangular cross-section. A metallic, rubber, or other spring, E, is placed between washers b b, either inside or outside of bracket 1), as desired. The washer 1) adjacent to bracket D is provided with a round hole in the center, while the other washer b has a square or triangular hole to fit on trunnion a, and prevent spring U i'rom getting worn. A cheek-nut, F, binds washers and spring together, and is prevented, by its washer b, from becoming unscrewed by the pressure of the spring E when the curtain is rolled or nnrollcd.

The check-nut F is used to regulate the tension of the spring on the bracket, so that the curtain A is held in place in any position in,

with the axle a, of the nut F, washers I) 1/,

springs E, and bracket 1), 'as and for the pur pose described.

. EDWARD M. DAVIES.

Witnesses:

S. A. McGLUsKY, FRANCIS J. Rnnnnorr, S. J. ORIsT. 

